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Advanced Illness Care is a home based program for patients with UPMC Health Plan coverage who have a serious or advanced
illness. It is designed to help patients better cope with their illness and maintain the highest quality of life possible.
At the heart of the program is an expert team of social workers, Certified Registered Nurse Practitioners (CRNPs), and nurses who partner closely with family members and primary care providers to support care at home.
The team helps the patient with advance care planning, achieving individual goals of care, and decision making in tandem with
his or her PCP.
It’s the power of face-to-face, collaborative care — delivered to patients in the comfort of their home.
- Help with treatment plan
- Help with symptom and pain management
- Advice and support for family/caregivers
- Help with advanced care planning
- Ten home visits per lifetime
- No member cost-sharing
- No home-bound status required
The Advanced Illness Care team includes UPMC Health Plan Medical Director oversight, and is further supported by a pharmacist.
A patient can be referred if he or she is 21 years old or older, is a UPMC Health Plan member, and has experienced at least one
of the following:
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Congestive heart failure
- Coronary artery disease
- Deferred hospice
- Dementia/Alzheimer’s disease
- Disenrolled from hospice due to nonprogression of disease
- End-stage disease but not a candidate for transplant
- LTAC stay within the past year
- Liver failure
- Metastatic cancer
- Palliative care/supportive services encounter
- Parkinson’s disease
- Renal failure/end-stage renal disease
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